Sentence examples for mounted warrior from inspiring English sources

The availability to mounted warrior elites of iron armour of high quality, particularly mail, was instrumental in the fall of Rome and in the establishment of European feudalism.

The goods associated with these tombs are far more military in nature than those found in the earlier tombs: iron swords, arrowheads, and tools; armour; and all the trappings of a mounted warrior culture.

By the very late Zhou, however, occasional examples such as the depiction of a mounted warrior contending with a tiger, executed in inlaid gold and silver on a bronze mirror from Jincun (c. 3rd century bce, Hosokawa collection, Tokyo)—suggest the emerging ability of artists to conceive of two-dimensional images in terms of implied bulk and spatial context.

It presents an almost religious struggle between Japan, portrayed as a puny but fearless and resplendent mounted warrior wielding a glowing sword, and a steroidal sci-fi monster that looms over him, breathing fire and gripping a mighty weapon, an implacable symbol of the United States.

A statue of Alexander on a steed – carved almost two decades before Macedonia's own mounted warrior came to grace Skopje's central square – has been hauled back to a warehouse because officials are undecided about which public space the sculpture should be erected in.

But it was by no means an exclusively European phenomenon; to the contrary, the mounted warrior's tactical supremacy was less complete in western Europe than in any other region of comparably advanced technology save Japan, where a strikingly parallel feudal situation prevailed.

They were wanderers and, not infrequently, fierce mounted warriors.

At various times armies have been built around infantry soldiers or mounted warriors or men in machines.

Ms. Menlibayeva's video references Kazakhstan's nomadic tribal heritage; Genghis Khan and his mounted warriors came from the Kazakh steppes.

Throughout these years the crown, the churches, and the lay lords had to enfeoff more and more ministeriales in order to raise mounted warriors for their forces.

Pastoralists, traders, and mounted warriors originally inhabiting the area between the Volga and Yaik (Ural) rivers, the Pechenegs were attacked by the Khazars and the Oghuz (c. 889).